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See spacecraft and meet astronauts at ESA’s technical heart31 July 2015
This is your chance to visit Europe’s largest place for space, meet astronauts and mission experts, and inspect actual space hardware – you can register from today for the Open Day on 4 October at ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands.

Robots under test for oil and gas rig duty 13 July 2015
A robot building on ESA’s ExoMars rover is bidding to win a place on oil and gas production rigs around the world, to work in remote and hazardous environments.

Telescopes focus on target of ESA’s asteroid mission30 June 2015
Telescopes around the globe recently homed in on one point in the sky, observing the paired Didymos asteroids – the target for ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission.
The 800 m-diameter main body is orbited by a 170 m moon, informally dubbed Didymoon...

Gallium nitride helping link Proba-V to Earth25 June 2015
Europe’s first item of high-performance gallium nitride technology to fly in space has completed its second year of operations. Hosted on ESA’s Earth-observing Proba-V minisatellite in 2013 as a test prototype, the transmitter is today used routinely...